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“We are aware of a sunfish in Broad Cove,” authorities posted. “We have checked on it, and it is doing normal sunfish activities … The sunfish is FINE.” On Monday, police in Wareham, Massachusetts, found themselves fielding an onslaught of Read more
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it has scheduled the first federal execution of a woman in almost 70 years, setting a Dec. 8 date to put to death Lisa Montgomery, convicted of a 2004 murder. Montgomery, Read more
An explosion in Harrisonburg, Virginia, on Saturday morning sent huge plumes of smoke billowing into the air and left two people with life-threatening injuries, authorities said. The blast occurred near a site where about 30 people from James Madison University’s Read more
The movement to eradicate bail from America’s justice system will face a crucial test Nov. 3, when California voters will decide whether to end the centuries-old practice of trading money for freedom and replace it with algorithms that try to Read more
Eileen Mihalko was born a month after her cousin, Patricia Jane Wagner, vanished after leaving her New Jersey home to go on a coffee date. But Eileen told Dateline she has always felt a strong connection to the family member Read more
Maki, the 21-year-old ring-tailed lemur stolen from the San Francisco Zoo this week, was found safe in a nearby city Thursday, and an arrest has been made in the case, police said. The animal was spotted by a woman in Read more
PARIS — A student said he warned his teacher about showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, considered blasphemous by Muslims, days before he was decapitated on a Paris street in what French President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist attack.” Read more